In February 2021, Kilmarnock Sheriff Court heard she neglected a four-year-old child so badly doctors feared he had blood
As well as two cases heard at Ayr Sheriff Court in February this year, she was due in the dock again at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court in June over two further prosecutions.
And last year she went unpunished after attacking a police officer and breaching bail conditions. Kilmarnock Sheriff Court heard she kicked a female officer and tried to head butt her while being arrested for failing to sign in at a police station.
She could have been jailed for up to 18 months for the offences but was placed on a Community Payback Order and told she would be supervised by social workers for 18 months.
As no unpaid work was imposed there was no punishment part to the sentence. Boyle claimed through her lawyer that she missed signing on at the police station because she had to flee her home when her partner in crime turned on her.
Claire Boyle, was found dead at a home on Main Street, Ochiltree, East Ayrshire, on April 4
The base of a cot had been removed and secured to the top with belts from dressing gowns, meaning a child could not escape once inside
Defence solicitor Brian Holliman said she had to move to escape Johnstone after they were spared jail for child neglect. Mr Holliman told the court: 'She was fleeing an abusive relationship.
'She left that relationship in October [2022]. On several occasions she was reported as a missing or vulnerable person by her partner, Mr Johnstone. She is located by police officers and can behave badly towards them.'
He said she drank to excess to cope and had been drunk when officers arrived at the property in Galston, East Ayrshire, on April 17 last year to arrest her. She shouted 'no, no no' as the officers tried to detain her, resisted arrest, and threw a head butt.
They restrained her and she lashed out, kicking one of them on the stomach. Her bail conditions required her to sign in at a police station but she failed to do so on March 31 last year, leading to officers going to her then-home in April to arrest her.
A Police Scotland spokesperson said: 'Around 7am on Thursday, April 4, 2024, police were called to a property in the Main Street area of Ochiltree, following the sudden death of a woman. There are not believed to be any suspicious circumstances and a report was submitted to the Procurator Fiscal.'
or a blood clotting disorder.
The mistreatment only came to light when the child, who was covered in bruises, escaped from her flat through a window. He squeezed through a six-inch gap between the frame and pane and dropped four feet to the ground.
He was found wearing only pyjamas and wandering the streets in the rain and police were contacted. Officers then went to the home Boyle shared with her partner, Timothy Johnstone, who was 23 years her senior.
In February 2021, Kilmarnock Sheriff Court heard Claire Boyle neglected a four-year-old child so badly doctors feared he had blood cancer or a blood clotting disorder. The mistreatment only came to light when the child, who was covered in bruises, escaped from her flat through a window
Evil Claire Boyle (left, with then-partner Timothy Johnstone outside Kilmarnock Sheriff Court in December 2020) with who kept a two-year-old child in a cage in her home and tried to sell a child in the street for £1million has been found dead
The cot cage Boyle kept a two-old-child in, for which she was found guilty of child neglect at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court in February 2021
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